Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1905

— A renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is expected at an early date.

— A strike of track and water-men on the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, affecting about 2,000 employees of that company, was reported from Denver, Colo., August 1.

— A strike of 60,000 cotton mill operatives is threatened in Lancashire, England, the cause being the refusal of a demand by the operatives of a five per cent increase in wages.

— Mayor Belcher, of Paterson, N. J., has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and simultaneously with his disappearance facts began coming to light indicative that he had for some time past been playing the part of a forger and confidence man, greatly to the financial detriment of some of his friends. Thus the record of betrayal of trust in high public office goes on.

— An investigation by a referee in bankruptcy into the financial standing of the late adventuress Cassie L. Chadwick, shows that about $14,000 are available to pay creditors to whom she owes $2,000,000.

— The Russian and Japanese peace envoys were formally presented to President Roosevelt, on board the government yacht "Mayflower" at Oyster Bay, L. I., August 5. The meeting between the representatives of the two hostile governments was unmarred by any unpleasant features, and among observers the hope was strengthened that the negotiations might result in the cessation of the war. The envoys were due at Portsmouth, N. H., August 7.

— Railway telegraphers connected with the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways who would not accept the terms offered by the railway companies in settlement of a controversy which has for some time been in progress between them, were locked out by the railway companies, August 1, this action being answered by the telegraphers' union with an order for a general strike of telegraphers on those lines. A general tie-up on the lines affected is anticipated.

— Seven saloon-keepers are under indictment at Hyattsville, Md., charged with violating the Sunday law, and are told they may expect severe punishment. The prosecution is being conducted by the Baltimore Anti-Saloon League. An appeal to the supreme court of Virginia is being taken by Mr. J. D. Levine, a Hebrew, of the city of Lynchburg, who was prosecuted under the Virginia Sunday law, the case coming first before the mayor of Lynchburg and then before the corporation court, where the decision of the mayor was affirmed.

— Only slight hopes of peace as the outcome of the coming conference between the Russian and Japanese envoys at Portsmouth, N. H., are now entertained by those supposed to be most conversant with the situation. The czar's most recent utterances have been decidedly warlike in tone, and the sentiment expressed in Russia seems to indicate that Russia will not consent either to an indemnity or to cession of Russian territory. In Japan vigorous preparations for a continuance of the war are everywhere manifest. It is stated that the amount of the indemnity to be demanded of Russia as a condition of immediate peace will be about $700,000,000.

— Yellow fever at New Orleans and surrounding towns, in spite of the vigorous efforts made to conquer it, has continued to spread, but not with the rapidity of former epidemics. A prominent feature of the situation is the clash between the States of Louisiana and Mississippi on account of the presence of armed Mississippi guards in Louisiana waters, which led to an exchange of warlike communications between the governors of the respective States, and a show of mobilizing the navy of Louisiana to repel the Mississippi invaders. A report made August 6 showed up to that date a total of 505 cases, ninety-seven deaths, and ninety-one centers of infection.